Joel Moss, the Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer for a slew of memorable Hollywood film scores and recordings, has died. He was 79.

Moss died Sept. 15 in Saratoga Springs, New York, after experiencing an aortic dissection, his daughter, Rachel Moss, told The Hollywood Reporter.

“Joel was loved and respected by all and was known as ‘the biggest mensch in the recording industry who created the best sounds in town,’” his family said in a statement.

Over a six-decade music -making career, Moss became a go-to engineer for scores for memorable films like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Footloose, Sister Act, City Slickers, Sleepless in Seattle, Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, Gorillas in the Mist and A Few Good Men.

Joel Moss, the Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer for

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